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Terms of Service

Appalex Limited

Effective Date: January 13, 2025

ABOUT WORDY

WORDY is an innovative language learning platform that enables users to learn languages through movies and TV shows. The Service provides access to educational content from over 500,000 films and TV series, allowing users to learn languages interactively. WORDY supports 20+ languages with personalized learning paths and progress tracking.

Service Provider Information:

Company Name: Appalex Limited

Address: 1012 Budapest, Logodi utca 48. A. lház. 1. em. 2. ajtó, Hungary

Company Registration: 01-09-433441

Tax Number: 32612600-2-41

Representative: Sándor B.

Email: support@appalex.hu

Phone: +36 702133578

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By accessing or using WORDY, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use our Service.

2. ACCOUNT REGISTRATION

2.1. Eligibility

To use WORDY, you must:

  • Be at least 12 years old
  • Provide accurate registration information
  • Maintain the security of your account

2.2. Registration Methods

You may register using:

  • Email and password
  • Google account (Google Sign-In)
  • Apple ID (Apple Sign-In)

2.3. Account Responsibilities

You are responsible for:

  • Maintaining the confidentiality of your account
  • All activities that occur under your account
  • Notifying us of any unauthorized use

3. THE SERVICE

3.1. What We Provide

WORDY provides:

  • Access to curated language content
  • Learning from movie and TV show clips
  • Word and phrase saving features
  • Practice exercises
  • Progress tracking
  • Push notifications for learning reminders

3.2. Service Availability

Content availability depends on:

  • Your subscription tier
  • Internet connection quality
  • Third-party service availability (YouTube, TMDB)

4. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PAYMENT

4.1. Subscription Types

WORDY offers various subscription options:

  • Monthly Subscription: Auto-renewing monthly
  • Annual Subscription: Auto-renewing yearly with discount
  • Lifetime Purchase: One-time payment for unlimited access
  • Free Trial: Available for new users

4.2. Payment Processing

All payments are processed exclusively through the Apple App Store. Current prices are displayed in the app and App Store.

4.3. Auto-Renewal

Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled. To cancel:

  • Go to iOS Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions
  • Cancel at least 24 hours before the next billing cycle
  • Access continues until the end of the current period

4.4. Refund Policy

All purchases through the App Store are subject to Apple's refund policy. To request a refund:

  • Visit: https://reportaproblem.apple.com
  • Or go to: Settings > Apple ID > Purchase History
  • Contact Apple Support

We cannot directly process refunds for App Store purchases.

5. USER CONDUCT

5.1. Acceptable Use

You agree to use WORDY only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms.

5.2. Prohibited Activities

You may not, and you may not assist, authorize, or permit any third party to:

  • Scrape, crawl, harvest, extract, mirror, cache, index, copy, or systematically retrieve any content, data, metadata, video identifier, channel identifier, subtitle, transcript, timestamp, title, translation, vocabulary item, or any other element of the Service or its underlying database, whether in whole or in part, whether substantial or insubstantial, by any means (including but not limited to manual copying, screen capture, OCR, headless browsers, automated browser extensions, mobile-app interception, MITM proxies, API clients, sniffing, packet capture, or any scripted or programmatic access)
  • Access the Service through any means other than the human-facing user interfaces officially published by WORDY for end users; without limitation, automated access, programmatic API calls outside of an official WORDY SDK released under written license, headless browsing, and any form of bot, crawler, spider, scraper, or robot are strictly prohibited
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, deobfuscate, tamper with, or attempt to derive the source code, models, prompts, embeddings, or algorithms of the Service, including the mobile applications, the web application, the Chrome extension, and any backend API, except to the extent that such reverse engineering is expressly permitted by mandatory applicable law (and in such case only after providing WORDY at least 30 days' prior written notice and an opportunity to provide the requested interoperability information)
  • Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any authentication, rate-limiting, anti-abuse, fingerprinting, integrity-verification, telemetry, watermarking, canary, honeypot, or access-control mechanism of the Service, or use multiple accounts, disposable accounts, rotating IP addresses, residential proxies, or any other technique to evade such mechanisms
  • Use the Service or any data extracted from it to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, distill, or otherwise develop any machine-learning model, language model, dataset, embedding, or any competing product or service; without limitation, this is an express, explicit, and machine-readable opt-out under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (the DSM Directive) and any equivalent national implementations, including Hungarian Szjt §35/A–§35/B, and applies to all reservations of rights under Article 53 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act)
  • Use, copy, reproduce, distribute, re-utilize, communicate, make available, or sublicense any substantial part, evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively, of the database underlying the Service, including any compilation, selection, or arrangement of video identifiers, channels, subtitles, transcripts, timestamps, translations, titles, or learning content; the database is protected by the sui generis right of Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC and Hungarian Szjt §§84/A–84/E, of which Appalex Kft. is the maker and rightholder
  • Engage in the repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilization of insubstantial parts of the database which conflicts with normal exploitation of the Service or unreasonably prejudices the legitimate interests of Appalex Kft., as defined in Article 7(5) of Directive 96/9/EC and Hungarian Szjt §84/B(2)
  • Build, operate, distribute, market, or commercialize any competing or substitutive product or service that uses, incorporates, derives from, or is in any way based on content, data, methodology, prompts, models, or infrastructure of the Service, or that constitutes parasitic copying within the meaning of Article 55(1)(c)(3) of Turkish Commercial Code (TTK Law No. 6102), Hungarian Tpvt §2, or analogous unfair-competition rules in any jurisdiction
  • Use the Service for any commercial purpose other than personal language learning, except under a separately negotiated written commercial license signed by an authorized representative of Appalex Kft.
  • Collect, harvest, or aggregate personal data of other users, public-figure data, or any data identifiable to natural persons through the Service
  • Distribute spam, malware, phishing content, or any content that infringes any third-party right or violates any applicable law
  • Interfere with, disrupt, or impose an unreasonable load on the Service, its servers, or its network, including denial-of-service attacks, resource exhaustion, or excessive request rates
  • Violate any intellectual property right, trade-secret right, database right, or unfair-competition right of Appalex Kft. or any third party, in any jurisdiction

5.2.1. Specific Anti-Scraping Notice (Mandatory Reading)

Appalex Kft. invests substantial human, editorial, technical, and financial resources in obtaining, verifying, and presenting the WORDY database, including but not limited to: (i) curating and licensing video sources; (ii) generating and human-verifying subtitle transcriptions using OpenAI Whisper combined with proprietary post-processing; (iii) producing localized titles using proprietary LLM pipelines and editorial review; (iv) maintaining indexing, scoring, and difficulty-grading systems; and (v) operating distribution and synchronization infrastructure. This database is protected as a sui generis database under Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC and Hungarian Szjt §§84/A–84/E. By accessing the Service, you irrevocably acknowledge and agree that:

  • Any scraping, crawling, automated extraction, programmatic access, mirroring, or re-utilization of any part of the Service or its database, whether qualitatively or quantitatively substantial or insubstantial, repeated or one-time, is a material breach of these Terms and an infringement of the sui generis database right, copyright, trade-secret rights, and unfair-competition rights of Appalex Kft.
  • The Service's API endpoints, JWT-authenticated routes, and mobile/web/extension client interfaces are not public or open APIs and are not licensed for third-party use; authentication via the standard signup flow grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access the Service through official WORDY clients only, for personal language-learning purposes only
  • Any technological measure used by Appalex Kft. to control access (including JWT authentication, rate limits, request signatures, device fingerprinting, and any future access-control mechanism) is a 'technological protection measure' within the meaning of Article 6 of Directive 2001/29/EC and Hungarian Szjt §95; circumvention is independently actionable
  • This clause is an express, machine-readable rightholder reservation against text-and-data mining under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and an express opt-out from any training, fine-tuning, evaluation, distillation, or benchmarking of any AI system using the Service or its outputs, including but not limited to large language models, transcription models, translation models, and recommender systems
  • Each unauthorized access to the API, each unauthorized request, each unauthorized record extracted, and each unauthorized record re-utilized is a separate breach for the purposes of calculating damages, costs, and equitable relief
  • If you breach this Section 5.2.1, you irrevocably consent to liquidated damages of EUR 5 per unauthorized API request and EUR 0.50 per record extracted or re-utilized, as a reasonable pre-estimate of the loss suffered by Appalex Kft. in the obtaining, verification, and presentation of its database, without prejudice to actual damages, profits-disgorgement, lost-profit damages, hypothetical-license damages, or any other remedy available under EU, Hungarian, Turkish, US, or applicable law
  • You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Budapest-Capital Regional Court (Fővárosi Törvényszék) for any dispute arising out of unauthorized automated access, scraping, or extraction, with Hungarian law (including Szjt, Tpvt, Polgári Törvénykönyv) and EU law applicable; this jurisdiction clause is mandatory and exclusive notwithstanding any other forum-selection provision
  • You agree that Appalex Kft. is entitled to interim and final injunctive relief, takedown notices to app stores (including Apple App Store and Google Play), and any other equitable remedy, without need to demonstrate further irreparable harm, in addition to monetary damages

This clause is intended to (a) clearly and unambiguously prohibit unauthorized automated access; (b) constitute a 'reasonable step under the circumstances' to keep the underlying methodology and database secret within the meaning of Article 2(1)(c) of Directive (EU) 2016/943 and Hungarian Act LIV of 2018 on the Protection of Trade Secrets; (c) operate as an express, machine-readable rightholder reservation against text-and-data mining under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790; and (d) defeat any defense based on the absence of explicit contractual prohibition under Meta Platforms, Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., or Van Buren v. United States, by establishing clear, conspicuous, surviving contractual restrictions on automated access.

5.3. Community Guidelines

If we introduce community features, you must:

  • Not share others' personal information
  • Not post offensive, obscene, or discriminatory content
  • Not engage in political or religious propaganda
  • Respect moderator decisions

5.4. Account Suspension

We may suspend or terminate your account if you:

  • Violate these Terms
  • Engage in illegal activities
  • Harm the Service or other users
  • Provide false information

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

6.1. WORDY Content and Database

All content, features, functionality, source code, models, prompts, embeddings, schemas, methodology, design, user interfaces, branding, trademarks, and trade dress of WORDY are exclusively owned by Appalex Kft. (or its licensors) and are protected by copyright, trademark, database, trade-secret, unfair-competition, and all other intellectual-property laws of Hungary, the European Union, and all other applicable jurisdictions. Nothing in these Terms transfers, licenses (except as expressly stated), assigns, or otherwise grants you any ownership in or to the foregoing.

6.2. Sui Generis Database Right

Appalex Kft. is the maker of the WORDY database within the meaning of Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC and Hungarian Szjt §§84/A–84/E, and has made qualitatively and quantitatively substantial investment in the obtaining, verification, and presentation of the database, including but not limited to: licensing and curation of video sources; transcription and human verification of subtitles using proprietary pipelines built on OpenAI Whisper and other foundation models; localization of titles, descriptions, and learning content using proprietary LLM pipelines and editorial review; difficulty grading, vocabulary scoring, and learning-path engineering; and ongoing maintenance, refresh, deletion, and addition of records constituting a substantial new investment for the purposes of Article 10(3) of Directive 96/9/EC and Szjt §84/D. As the database maker, Appalex Kft. has the exclusive right to prevent extraction and re-utilization of the whole or any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the database, and to prevent the repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilization of insubstantial parts which conflicts with normal exploitation of the database or unreasonably prejudices the legitimate interests of Appalex Kft. The sui generis right is independent of, and additional to, any copyright in any individual element of the database.

6.3. Trade Secrets

The WORDY methodology, including its proprietary LLM prompt engineering, transcription post-processing, editorial selection criteria, difficulty-grading algorithms, recommender systems, training data, evaluation datasets, internal benchmarks, and database schemas, constitutes a trade secret within the meaning of Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/943 and Hungarian Act LIV of 2018. Appalex Kft. takes reasonable steps to keep this information secret, including by (i) restricting access via authentication; (ii) the prohibitions of these Terms; (iii) confidentiality obligations on employees and contractors; and (iv) the technological measures referenced in Sections 5.2 and 5.2.1.

6.4. Third-Party Content

Movies, TV shows, music videos, and other underlying media content remain the property of their respective owners. WORDY provides access to this content within the Service solely for personal, non-commercial, educational language-learning purposes. No part of the third-party content may be downloaded, copied, redistributed, mirrored, scraped, or used in any way outside the Service or for any purpose other than personal language learning within the official WORDY clients.

6.5. User Content

You retain ownership of content you create within the Service (saved words, notes, custom collections). You grant Appalex Kft. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, sync, host, display, and process this content as necessary to provide the Service to you.

6.6. Restrictions

Without limiting the prohibitions in Sections 5.2 and 5.2.1, you may not, and you may not assist any third party to:

  • Copy, modify, distribute, communicate to the public, make available, mirror, cache, or create derivative works of any content of the Service or any part of the WORDY database, in any medium and by any means, including for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, evaluating, distilling, or benchmarking any machine-learning model or AI system
  • Extract or re-utilize any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the WORDY database, or engage in repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilization of insubstantial parts
  • Download, copy, screen-record, or redistribute third-party content obtained through the Service outside the official WORDY clients
  • Use any content, data, methodology, prompt, model output, or vocabulary list of WORDY for any commercial purpose, including building or operating any product, service, dataset, model, or feature that competes with or substitutes for WORDY
  • Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notice on the Service
  • Use the WORDY name, logo, trademarks, trade dress, or distinctive presentation in a manner that would create a likelihood of confusion, association, or sponsorship
  • Engage in any act that constitutes parasitic copying, slavish imitation, or unfair imitation within the meaning of Article 55(1)(c) of Turkish Commercial Code (TTK Law No. 6102), Hungarian Tpvt §§2 and 6, or any analogous unfair-competition rule in any jurisdiction

7. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS

7.1. Service Availability

We strive for continuous availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We are not liable for:

  • Third-party service outages (YouTube, TMDB)
  • Internet connectivity issues
  • Force majeure events
  • Device compatibility problems

7.2. Content Accuracy

While we strive for accuracy, we do not guarantee that all content is error-free or suitable for all learning purposes.

7.3. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to the amount you paid for the Service in the 12 months preceding the claim.

8. PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

Your use of WORDY is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and protect your information. By using WORDY, you consent to our data practices as described in the Privacy Policy.

9. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE AND TERMS

9.1. Service Changes

We may:

  • Add new features
  • Modify existing features
  • Remove outdated features
  • Change content availability

We will notify you of significant changes 30 days in advance.

9.2. Terms Updates

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via:

  • In-app notifications
  • Email
  • Website announcements

Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

10. ACCESSIBILITY

We are committed to making WORDY accessible to all users. We continuously work toward WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. Report accessibility issues to: support@appalex.hu

11. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

11.1. Institutional Accounts

Educational institutions may arrange special agreements with:

  • Volume discounts
  • Group accounts
  • Teacher supervision features
  • Progress reporting tools

11.2. Student Protections

Student accounts automatically have:

  • Enhanced privacy settings
  • Limited community features
  • Teacher approval requirements for certain features

12. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

12.1. Informal Resolution

We prefer to resolve disputes informally. Contact us at support@appalex.hu to discuss any concerns.

12.2. Arbitration

For EU users: Disputes may be submitted to your local consumer dispute resolution body or the European Online Dispute Resolution platform at: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/

For US users: Disputes will be resolved through binding arbitration in accordance with the American Arbitration Association rules, except where prohibited by law.

12.3. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Hungary, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. This choice of law does not prevent you from relying on mandatory consumer protection laws in your country of residence.

12.4. Jurisdiction

For disputes that cannot be resolved through alternative dispute resolution, the courts of Budapest, Hungary shall have jurisdiction, subject to applicable consumer protection laws that may grant you the right to bring proceedings in your country of residence.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

13.1. Entire Agreement

These Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Appalex Limited regarding WORDY.

13.2. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.

13.3. No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.

13.4. Assignment

You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign our rights and obligations without restriction.

14. CONTACT INFORMATION

Appalex Limited

Email: support@appalex.hu

Phone: +36 702133578

Address: 1012 Budapest, Logodi utca 48. A. lház. 1. em. 2. ajtó, Hungary

APPENDIX A: SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS

1. Free Trial

Duration: 7 days (new users only)

Includes:

  • Full access to all features
  • Unlimited word saving
  • All languages available

Automatically converts to paid subscription unless cancelled.

2. Monthly Subscription

  • Auto-renews monthly
  • Unlimited content access
  • All learning features
  • Cross-device sync
  • Regular content updates

3. Annual Subscription

  • Auto-renews yearly
  • Significant discount vs. monthly
  • All monthly features included

4. Lifetime Access

  • One-time purchase
  • Unlimited access forever
  • Non-renewable
  • Transferable to new devices

Approved by: Sándor B.

Document Version: 1.0

Last Updated: January 13, 2025

Document ID: WORDY-TOS-EN-2025-01